ABIGAIL STIERS

Maine

Profile Type: Artist

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ABIGAIL STIERS

My work includes interactive electronic media, site-specific sculpture, public art and original video design for theater and dance. Currently, I teach robotics, art history and visual arts.

Study for Public Art Commission at the IMRC Center in Orono, ME. With Isabelle Pellisier and Alexander Gross.

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Original video design for collaboration with choreographer Charlotte Griffin and composer Milica Paranosic.

Perhaps I am From Here
Changes in skin conductivity rearrange the playback of words from a text.

Skin Response Documentation (November 2009)
A sensor produces three numbers which pertain to surface below. Each drawing also corresponds to three numbers, describing subtle variations in the evolution of lines and shapes. With Elizabeth Ainslie.

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When the same viewer returns, the same video plays. The video is the result of considered choices, which aim to evoke the experience of being in a particular place at a certain moment.

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I placed boxes around town asking people to draw maps to their favorite places in Bangor. This compilation shows similarities and differences in mark making and drawing, as well as concepts of space and how cities are experienced.

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Words are chosen according to wind speed and appear on a spinning aluminum turbine. The turbine, which hangs from a tree outside, performs persistence of vision with LED lights.

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UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD - THE HARTT SCHOOL

August 2013

Currently collaborating with Charlotte Griffin and Milica Paranosic on a multimedia dance piece commissioned by and performed at the Hartt School. Will be co-teaching a collaborative multimedia workshop there.
BOWDOIN COLLEGE - DEPARTMENT OF THEATER AND DANCE

April 2013

Created original video for multimedia dance by choreographers Nya McCarthy-Brown, Charlotte Griffin and Paul Sarvis, and projection design for The Pajama Game, directed by Davis Robinson.
MAINE ARTS COMMISSION

March 2013

Recieved funding to create a series of artworks through a "Good Idea Grant." Also recently awarded a "Percent for Art" commission for a public art installation at the IMRC center in Orono.

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ABIGAIL STIERS

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Perhaps I am From Here

Skin Response Documentation (November 2009)

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I am a Teaching Artist